His body does not come to Louis van Gaal. The national coach reveals in conversation with Noa Vahle van The the Dutch Winter that he has been on for a year intermittent fasting does, a special diet. Van Gaal lost no less than fifteen kilos. Now that he is in Qatar with the Dutch national team, he is having a hard time.
Truus, the wife of the 71-year-old elector, arrived in the Gulf state yesterday. She reportedly wanted to have a bite to eat with her husband, but he refused. “I’m not eating. I’m done intermittent fasting“, Van Gaal responded to the request. Vahle then went to check with the national coach.
He was willing to explain his special eating pattern. “I’ve been doing that for a long time,” said Van Gaal. “You don’t think I’m just going to stay like this? Don’t you think I look good? I’ve been doing that for a year and I’ve gone from 105 to 90 kilos. And now I’m 93. Because I’m with the boys, and then we have three meals. That was difficult for a while, but now I’m fine again,” said the national coach.
‘Intemittent fasting’ (loosely translated: periodic fasting) is a type of diet in which one abstains from calorie intake for a certain period of time. The best-known form is the ’16:8 method’, in which eating is only allowed for eight hours a day. ‘Alternate fasting’, a more extreme variant in which nothing may be eaten for one or two days in a week, has also been gaining more and more attention in recent years. In any case, Johan Derksen summarized it as follows: “Van Gaal just keeps Ramadan all year round!”